“FOLLOW YOU” MUSIC VIDEO
FEATURING IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA STARS
ROB MCELHENNEY & KAITLIN OLSON
GRAMMY®-winning, multi-Platinum band Imagine Dragons have unveiled the music video for their new single “Follow You”. The video stars actors and real-life couple Rob McElhenney & Kaitlin Olson and was shot inside The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. The video made its global broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU and across MTV’s global network of channels, as well as on the ViacomCBS Times Square billboard today.
Directed by Matt Eastin, McElhenney and Olson find themselves preparing for a surprise, private
birthday concert planned by Olson for McElhenney featuring his favorite band. It doesn’t take long to uncover that she perhaps booked her favorite band before Imagine Dragons take to the stage for a performance of “Follow You” full of fantastical twists, romance, and… some bare chests.
McElhenney is the creator, executive producer and star of the cultural phenomenon It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for FXX and Mythic Quest for Apple TV+ – whose highly-anticipated second season will debut on May 7, 2021.
Olson is best known for her role on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia . She has also starred in The Mick, Curb Your Enthusiasm , Finding Dory and will next be seen in HBO Max’s highly anticipated Jean Smart Comedy series, “Hacks.”
“Follow You,”which was produced by Joel Little, is a love song full of lysergic guitar and intricate arrangements. Vocalist Dan Reynolds wrote the track during a turning point in his marriage. He was on his way to sign divorce papers when he received a text from his wife so full of clarity that it shook him to his core. The couple postponed their split for the next week –and then forever.
The last few years have been heavy for Imagine Dragons, and the world at large. As the band members grappled with the grief of losing close friends and family, alongside other deeply personal struggles, Reynolds announced in December 2019 that he was taking some time away to focus on family and personal growth. Then came the pandemic. Nonetheless, the break proved a source for creative renewal.
“It took walking away from everything to find a lot more clarity and happiness,” explains Dan Reynolds.
With 40 million albums and 50 million songs sold globally, as well as 60 billion combined streams, Imagine Dragons were the best-selling rock band of the 2010s, even as they were busy reinventing the genre. Billboard’sTop 3 rock songs of the decade belonged tothe band –“Believer,” “Thunder” and “Radioactive.”
Formed in 2009, Imagine Dragons developed a grassroots following with a series of independently released EPs before making their major label debut on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope with the 2012 EP Continued Silence.Night Visions, their 2012 full-length debut, entered the Billboard200 at No. 2 and the lead-off track “Radioactive”topped Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart, won a GRAMMY for Best Rock Performance, and achieved RIAA Diamond status. 2015’sSmoke + Mirrorsdebuted at No. 1 on theBillboard200. EVOLVE, which followed in 2017,earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album and unleashed three No. 1 Alternative radio hits:“Believer,” the GRAMMY-nominated “Thunder” and“Whatever It Takes.”All three songs were also top 5 hits at Top 40 radio, with “Thunder” rising to the No. 1 spot. The band’s fourth album,ORIGINS, debuted atopBillboard’s Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts and lead single”Natural”spent nine weeks at No. 1 at alternative radio and set the current record for all-time “most spins in a week” at the format.
While Imagine Dragons have become one the biggest acts inthe world, they’ve kept intimacy and honesty at their core, maintaining a striking creative restlessness, as their newest songs –“Follow You” and “Cutthroat” –attest.
